COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE
REFUSAL TO REDUCE CHARGE (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. On charges of breaking, entering and theft from the residence of Mr Justice Kennedy, James Alexander Knox and Reginald Thomas Munro were committed to the Supreme Court at Christchurch for sentence the police declining to reduce the charge to theft, thus avoiding the expense of sending the men elsewhere for sentence. Counsel for prisoners said it was wasting the taxpayers’ money to send the men to Christchurch after the court’s strong intimation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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85COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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